Partition benefits . . .

[Kay C Lan]

On 5/5/07, Richmond Mathewson <geradamas at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> An even faster solution, in my experience, is to
> install Applejack:
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> http://applejack.sourceforge.net/


Yes, I use AppleJack as well, an excellent solution for OSX only; but as
you, I still have a couple of older machines hanging around that aren't OSX
compatible.

Still there are a couple of situations where the extra OS on separate
partition comes in handy, even for OSX;

1) defraging your startup disc
2) extremely rare on OSX but if you ever install something and suddenly run
into problems, being able to restart off the other partition and do your
days work and worry about troubleshooting the normal partition at a more
convenient time can be a real "phew" moment.
3) being able to do work whilst running maintenance - you can't do anything
whilst AppleJack does it's thing.